Documents Regarding Global Cooling Pledge.

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DCCEEW released briefing documents prepared for a ministerial meeting in October 2025 regarding international climate initiatives, specifically Australia's position on the "Beat the Heat and the Cooling Pledge" being negotiated at COP30 (Brazil). The documents include decision matrices tracking various climate pledges across categories of support, possible support pending confirmation, proposed decline, and items under assessment. The Cooling Pledge is listed as "on hold or under assessment" with extensive redactions applied under the FOI Act section 22(1)(a)(ii), preventing disclosure of the substantive departmental advice and rationale underlying the government's position on this international climate commitment. No quantified environmental data, regulatory decisions, or EPBC Act determinations are evident in the released material.